A bronze statue of Tubman is set to be installed outside Philadelphia’s City Hall in late 2026.
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Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.
America’s complicated history with race can be told through the lives and times of Black Americans, a view that some GOP-controlled state legislatures want to restrict, if not outright ban.
Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.
Harriet Tubman has long been known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad leading enslaved Black people to freedom. Less known is her role as a Union spy during the Civil War.
Although millions voted to put her face on the bill in an online poll, many still don’t know the story of her life and the role faith played in it.
The abolitionist’s legacy is often molded to fit various political agendas. Yet the Brown who appears in Showtime’s new miniseries is one we haven’t seen before.
On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how.
Both in 19th-century America and today, the initiative and choices of those making the journey are often ignored.
Among Tubman’s most daring feats was helping slaves escape. She believed she went into trances and had visions. These, to her, were God’s way of guiding her, which made her quite fearless.
Does the new film misrepresent Harriet Tubman’s legacy as claimed by many Twitter users?
Canada’s iconic retailer of outdoor adventure gear recently decided to change its mostly white image by diversifying the catalogue to better reflect the reality of its customers.
In the 19th century, slaveholders advertised widely for runaway slaves and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. African-American communities offered sanctuary space to the runaways.
The announcement that Harriet Tubman will be the first woman on U.S. currency in more than a century recalls the history of female – and African-American – portrayals on money.
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Professor of History, Brandeis University
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Former Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Professor of History, Howard University
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